Motivational Quotes

Perseverance

We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Perseverance

How long should you try? Until.

Rohn, Jim

Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.

Rohn, Jim

We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough.

Keller, Helen

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals -- this alone is worth the struggle.

Osler, Sir William

Plenty of men can do good work for a spurt and with immediate promotion in mind, but for promotion you want a man in whom good work has become a habit.

Doherty, Henry L.

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Roosevelt, Franklin D.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

Euripides

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Chesterfield, Lord

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Coolidge, Calvin

10.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

11.

It's always too soon to quit.

Scoates, David T.

12.

Don't halt before you are lame.

Proverb, English

13.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. [Hebrews 10:36]

Bible

15.

They, that unnamed they, they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up -- and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Corso, Gregory

16.

Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

17.

Bear in mind, if you are going to amount to anything, that your success does not depend upon the brilliance and the impetuosity with which you take hold, but upon the ever lasting and sanctified bull doggedness with which you hang on after you have taken hold.

Meldrum, Dr. A. B.

18.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

Hill, Napoleon

19.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Andrews, Julie

20.

You just can't beat the person who never gives up.

Ruth, Babe

21.

Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.

Riley, James Whitcomb

22.

Perpetual pushing and assurance put a difficulty out of countenance and make a seeming difficulty give way.

Collier, Jeremy

23.

I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

Thatcher, Margaret

24.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Hill, Napoleon

25.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.

Ross, Percy

26.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

Wickman, Bob

27.

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot from a winning touchdown.

Perot, H. Ross

28.

The most essential factor is persistence -- the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.

Riley, James Whitcomb

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I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.

Lincoln, Abraham

30.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Riis, Jacob

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When you put your hand to the plow, you can't put it down until you get to the end of the row.

Paul, Alice

32.

One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The superior man perseveres long in his course, adapts to the times, but remains firm in his direction and correct in his goals.

I Ching

33.

For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again. [Proverbs 24:16]

Bible

34.

The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

Hill, Napoleon

35.

I never thought I didn't have a card to play.

Lovell, Jim

36.

A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

Bierce, Ambrose

37.

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; Hold on!

Kipling, Rudyard

38.

One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.

Allen, George

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The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.

Lucretius

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I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.

Lincoln, Abraham

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Neither evil tongues, rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ever prevail against us.

Wordsworth, William

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Success... seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Hilton, Conrad

43.

The only way to overcome is to hang in.

O'Brien, Dan

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Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.

Carnegie, Dale

45.

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Samuel Johnson

46.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

47.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Henley, William Ernest

48.

Lots of people limit their possibilities by giving up easily. Never tell yourself this is too much for me. It's no use. I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too. Keep believing and keep on keeping on.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory.

Engstrom, Ted W.

50.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.

Herodotus